--- title: "20 George Macdonald Quotes by 17 authors" description: "Browse 20 George Macdonald quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best George Macdonald sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/richard-bacon-5021_books_i-like-learning-things-from-books-some-o_2757488.png" --- > [I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-bacon/i-like-learning-things-from-books-some-of-my-favourites-are-george/) [Richard Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-bacon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/richard-bacon-5021_books_i-like-learning-things-from-books-some-o_2757488.png) > [“It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved. George MacDonald”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-johnson/it-is-a-greater-compliment-to-be-trusted-than-to-be-loved-george/) [Rick Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/rick-johnson-17553_trust_it-is-a-greater-compliment-to-be-trusted_1667724.jpg) > [We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body." George Macdonald, 1892](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/we-don-t-have-a-soul-we-are-a-soul-we-have-a-body-george-macdonald/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/george-macdonald-295_body_we-don-t-have-a-soul-we-are-a-soul-we-ha_1008712.png) > [An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/an-almost-perfect-relationship-with-his-father-was-the-earthly-root/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/anonymous-1_almost-perfect_an-almost-perfect-relationship-with-his_693929.jpg) > [I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-henley/i-devour-history-books-i-love-anything-by-thomas-b-costain-or-george/) [Virginia Henley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-henley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/virginia-henley-27676_also_i-devour-history-books-i-love-anything-b_2197711.jpg) > [“Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/many-a-wrong-and-it-s-curing-song-many-a-road-and-many-an-inn-room-to/) [george macdonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d15/george-macdonald-295_george-macdonald_many-a-wrong-and-it-s-curing-song-many-a_205166.png) > [George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-elliot/george-macdonald-said-if-you-knew-what-god-knows-about-death-you/) [Elisabeth Elliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-elliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/elisabeth-elliot-1209_america_george-macdonald-said-if-you-knew-what-g_466265.png) > [“Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need,” wrote George MacDonald. “Prayer is the beginning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-eldredge/communion-with-god-is-the-one-need-of-the-soul-beyond-all-other-need/) [John Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-eldredge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/john-eldredge-1487_communion_communion-with-god-is-the-one-need-of-th_1090005.png) > [My wife and I have this discussion all the time. Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald. Mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-claremont/my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-the-time-her-primal-influences/) [Chris Claremont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-claremont/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/chris-claremont-4123_differences_my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-t_745842.jpg) > [George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-strength-during-times-of-trouble/) [Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/madeleine-l-engle-345_death_george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-streng_254296.jpg) > [“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership demonstrates), “Obedience is the opener…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-rigney/lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-it-and-as-the-children-s/) [Joe Rigney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-rigney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/joe-rigney-22757_children_lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-i_1705374.jpg) > [“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-break-the-crust-of-self-gathered/) [George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/george-macdonald-295_darkness_with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-brea_1360912.png) > [God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-walsh/god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-forget-yourself-at-times-the/) [Sheila Walsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-walsh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/sheila-walsh-17364_doe_god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-f_2632099.jpg) > [“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fairy-tales-and-folk-ballads-so/) [Terri Windling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terri-windling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/terri-windling-8504_big-fan_i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fa_26854.jpg) > [“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-pointing-out-not-one-word-in-the/) [Thomas Talbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-talbott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b47/thomas-talbott-31141_bible_as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-point_2917368.jpg) > [“In sum, disciples might do well to avoid the bibliolatry that characterizes scripture as unerring truth. Parley Pratt made this point himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terryl-l-givens/in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid-the-bibliolatry-that/) [Terryl L. Givens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terryl-l-givens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/terryl-l-givens-20241_bible_in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid_2531195.jpg) > [“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-the-17th-century-onward-include/) [Terri Windling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terri-windling/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/terri-windling-8504_brothers-grimm_creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-th_512815.png) > [“George MacDonald made the following observation: Instead of crushing the power of evil by divine force; instead of compelling justice and destroying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/george-macdonald-made-the-following-observation-instead-of-crushing/) [Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/ravi-zacharias-1158_christianity_george-macdonald-made-the-following-obse_799577.jpg) > [“Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle and Child,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-dobson/christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pint-of-ale-at-the-bird-and/) [Melanie Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melanie-dobson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/melanie-dobson-26597_children_christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pi_1112293.jpg) > [“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/all-the-books-were-beginning-to-turn-against-me-indeed-i-must-have/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48f/c-s-lewis-121_books_all-the-books-were-beginning-to-turn-aga_2218629.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/george-macdonald-2/#itemlist", "name": "George Macdonald Quotes", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I like learning things from books. 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Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald. Mine are Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit and T.H. White. So, we have certain structural differences in form and content right off the bat!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Chris Claremont" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-claremont/my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-the-time-her-primal-influences/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/chris-claremont-4123_differences_my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-t_745842.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/chris-claremont-4123_differences_my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-t_745842.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/chris-claremont-4123_differences_my-wife-and-i-have-this-discussion-all-t_745842.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My wife and I have this discussion all the time. Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and…” — Chris Claremont", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, \"The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Madeleine L'Engle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-strength-during-times-of-trouble/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/madeleine-l-engle-345_death_george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-streng_254296.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/madeleine-l-engle-345_death_george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-streng_254296.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d88/madeleine-l-engle-345_death_george-macdonald-gives-me-renewed-streng_254296.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to…” — Madeleine L'Engle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership demonstrates), “Obedience is the opener of eyes.” Or in the words of Jesus, “If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God” (John 7:17).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joe Rigney" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-rigney/lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-it-and-as-the-children-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/joe-rigney-22757_children_lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-i_1705374.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/joe-rigney-22757_children_lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-i_1705374.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/joe-rigney-22757_children_lewis-s-hero-george-macdonald-once-put-i_1705374.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership…” — Joe Rigney", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shake The darkness out of me, and rend the mesh The spider-devils spin out of the flesh- Eager to net the soul before it wake, That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake. George MacDonald”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George MacDonald" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-break-the-crust-of-self-gathered/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/george-macdonald-295_darkness_with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-brea_1360912.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/george-macdonald-295_darkness_with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-brea_1360912.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/george-macdonald-295_darkness_with-every-morn-my-life-afresh-must-brea_1360912.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit…” — George MacDonald", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, \"It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence.\" God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sheila Walsh" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-walsh/god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-forget-yourself-at-times-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/sheila-walsh-17364_doe_god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-f_2632099.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/sheila-walsh-17364_doe_god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-f_2632099.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/sheila-walsh-17364_doe_god-s-love-is-a-gift-that-can-make-you-f_2632099.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said…” — Sheila Walsh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like George Macdonald 's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats , and Sylvia Townsend Warner 's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin . (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.) I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I love William Morris' early fantasy novels. Oh, and \" Lud-in-the-Mist \" by Hope Mirrlees ( Neil Gaiman is a big fan of that one too), and I could go on and on but I won't!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terri Windling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fairy-tales-and-folk-ballads-so/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/terri-windling-8504_big-fan_i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fa_26854.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/terri-windling-8504_big-fan_i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fa_26854.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/terri-windling-8504_big-fan_i-ve-been-very-influenced-by-folklore-fa_26854.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based…” — Terri Windling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are ultimate facts about God, or that Christ’s sacrifice was required in order to appease a vindictive God. A more accurate understanding would be that Christ’s death and resurrection was God’s sacrifice to us, the means whereby God changes our attitudes and reconciles us to himself (see, for example, 2 Cor 5:19); it is not a means whereby God’s attitude towards us is changed. God’s attitude remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. For God is love; that is the rock-bottom fact about God. But the history of organized religion, at least in the Western tradition, is a record of our human resistance to the proclamation that God is love, that his love extends to everyone, and that it is in no way conditioned upon human obedience or human faithfulness.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Talbott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-talbott/as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-pointing-out-not-one-word-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b47/thomas-talbott-31141_bible_as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-point_2917368.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b47/thomas-talbott-31141_bible_as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-point_2917368.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b47/thomas-talbott-31141_bible_as-george-macdonald-was-so-fond-of-point_2917368.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that…” — Thomas Talbott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In sum, disciples might do well to avoid the bibliolatry that characterizes scripture as unerring truth. Parley Pratt made this point himself in The Fountain of Knowledge, a small pamphlet he wrote in 1844. With elegant metaphor, he noted that scripture resulted from revelatory process and was thus the product of revealed truth, not the other way around. We do well to look to a stream for nourishing water, but we do better to secure the fountain. That fountain, Pratt noted, is “the gift of revelation,” which “the restoration of all things” heralds.21 Or, in George MacDonald’s metaphor, we should hold the scriptures as “the moon of our darkness, . . . not dear as the sun towards which we haste.\" p56”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terryl L. Givens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terryl-l-givens/in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid-the-bibliolatry-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/terryl-l-givens-20241_bible_in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid_2531195.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/terryl-l-givens-20241_bible_in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid_2531195.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/terryl-l-givens-20241_bible_in-sum-disciples-might-do-well-to-avoid_2531195.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In sum, disciples might do well to avoid the bibliolatry that characterizes scripture as unerring truth…” — Terryl L. Givens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France), Hans Christian Andersen (19th-century Denmark), George Macdonald and Oscar Wilde (19th-century England). The Brothers Grimm (19th-century Germany) blurred the line between oral and literary tales by presenting their German \"household tales\" as though they came straight from the mouths of peasants, though in fact they revised these stories to better reflect their own Protestant ethics. It is interesting to note that these canonized writers are all men, since this is a reversal from the oral storytelling tradition, historically dominated by women. Indeed, Straparola, Basile, Perrault, and even the Brothers Grimm made no secret of the fact that their source material came largely or entirely from women storytellers. Yet we are left with the impression that women dropped out of the history of fairy tales once they became a literary form, existing only in the background as an anonymous old peasant called Mother Goose.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terri Windling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-the-17th-century-onward-include/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/terri-windling-8504_brothers-grimm_creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-th_512815.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/terri-windling-8504_brothers-grimm_creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-th_512815.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/terri-windling-8504_brothers-grimm_creators-of-literary-fairy-tales-from-th_512815.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely…” — Terri Windling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“George MacDonald made the following observation: Instead of crushing the power of evil by divine force; instead of compelling justice and destroying the wicked; instead of making peace on earth by the rule of a perfect prince; instead of gathering the children of Jerusalem under his wings whether they would or not, and saving them from the horrors that anguished his prophetic soul—[Jesus] let evil work its will while it lived; he contented himself with the slow, unencouraging ways of help essential; making men good; casting out, not merely controlling Satan… To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it… Throughout his life on earth, [Jesus] resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good—strong, perhaps, when he saw old age and innocence and righteousness trodden underfoot [italics added].5”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ravi Zacharias" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/george-macdonald-made-the-following-observation-instead-of-crushing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/ravi-zacharias-1158_christianity_george-macdonald-made-the-following-obse_799577.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/ravi-zacharias-1158_christianity_george-macdonald-made-the-following-obse_799577.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7b/ravi-zacharias-1158_christianity_george-macdonald-made-the-following-obse_799577.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“George MacDonald made the following observation: Instead of crushing the power of evil by divine force…” — Ravi Zacharias", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle and Child, and basked in the familiar smells- old wood bathed in lemon oil, braised beef, stale beer that spackled the bar. The pub was a popular mecca for those who admired J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and their entire literary giants they called Inklings. Christopher wasn't even close to being a literary giant nor was he a tourist, but he enjoyed writing and liked to feign himself one of the professors who might have basked in the lively readings and debates of the Inklings instead of just the aromas of this pub. Personally, he admired the writings of George MacDonald, the man C.S. Lewis considered his mentor. MacDonald was a writer and professor. And he was a frequently unemployed Scottish minister due to his views on God's love and grace. The man could speak the language of theologians at the same time he wrote books for children and readers of all ages whom he described as \"child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.\" MacDonald was a man of integrity who believed that God did not punish His children except to amend and heal them. A man who believed God's love and grace was available to all people- a direct affront to the Calvinists in his era.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Melanie Dobson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melanie-dobson/christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pint-of-ale-at-the-bird-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/melanie-dobson-26597_children_christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pi_1112293.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/melanie-dobson-26597_children_christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pi_1112293.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/melanie-dobson-26597_children_christopher-westcott-slowly-drank-his-pi_1112293.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle…” — Melanie Dobson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen it long before, the ludicrous contradiction between my theory of life and my actual experiences as a reader. George MacDonald had done more to me than any other writer; of course it was a pity that he had that bee in his bonnet about Christianity. He was good in spite of it . Chesterton has more sense than all the other moderns put together; bating, of course, his Christianity. Johnson was one of the few authors whom I felt I could trust utterly; curiously enough, he had the same kink. Spenser and Milton by a strange coincidence had it too. Even among ancient authors the same paradox was to be found. The most religious (Plato, Aeschylus, Virgil) were clearly those on whom I could really feed. On the other hand, those writers who did not suffer from religion and with whom in theory my sympathy ought to have been complete -- Shaw and Wells and Mill and Gibbon and Voltaire -- all seemed a little thin; what as boys we called \"tinny\". It wasn't that I didn't like them. They were all (especially Gibbon) entertaining; but hardly more. There seemed to be no depth in them. They were too simple. The roughness and density of life did not appear in their books.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C.S. 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